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After reading the reviews here about Rhino, and watching it develop over time- I took a chance that the people using and writing wonderful things about Rhino knew what they were talking about. They wernt wrong.
Ordering...
As far as the ordering go's, its a download snap. No problems with the site what so ever, as as long as you enter the right email address, the key information was sent to me within seconds from the order. Installation was a breeze- and once you get the registry key in the Rhino directory, its a done deal. Pretty simple and straight forward...
Preset Sounds...
Now about the "preset" sounds... I have not had the time with Rhino to tweak with it, so instead I went straight for the preset sounds to judge... I figured if over half of the presets sounded good to me, Id be a happy camper. Boy was I surprised- nearly all of them did! I have Atmosphere, Absynth-2, Reaktor4, and a few others so Im not soft synth poor, and altho there are many bright spots of synth heaven in all these synths on certain patches- alot of the sounds "they" have I would never use for much... They are just too "far out" for anything I would ever do... I spent over an hour just thumbing through many of the availible banks of sounds (downloadable at Big-Tick) and found that most of the noise that Rhino makes is not only beautiful but usable right from the preset. Even the factory bank (which is usually the one that gets tweaked the most) is wonderful and needs no help. There were very few patches in Rhino that I found, that I didnt think I could use in a track- right now. Most were a nice surprise, sounded down right KILLER for a factory preset. The sounds are warm and useable, and there are many of them, support seems to be great, the price is twice to 3 times lower than some others I own and wernt as thrilled with at first like I am with Rhino. Seems very stable. All this figured out without reading one word in the manual (gave it a 7 just because)- which Im thinking once you learn this synth- WATCH OUT! Much more wonderful sounds are sure to become available with this baby... All in all- I got my moneys worth and then some. This is one nice Synth folks- no kidding...Read Review
Ordering...
As far as the ordering go's, its a download snap. No problems with the site what so ever, as as long as you enter the right email address, the key information was sent to me within seconds from the order. Installation was a breeze- and once you get the registry key in the Rhino directory, its a done deal. Pretty simple and straight forward...
Preset Sounds...
Now about the "preset" sounds... I have not had the time with Rhino to tweak with it, so instead I went straight for the preset sounds to judge... I figured if over half of the presets sounded good to me, Id be a happy camper. Boy was I surprised- nearly all of them did! I have Atmosphere, Absynth-2, Reaktor4, and a few others so Im not soft synth poor, and altho there are many bright spots of synth heaven in all these synths on certain patches- alot of the sounds "they" have I would never use for much... They are just too "far out" for anything I would ever do... I spent over an hour just thumbing through many of the availible banks of sounds (downloadable at Big-Tick) and found that most of the noise that Rhino makes is not only beautiful but usable right from the preset. Even the factory bank (which is usually the one that gets tweaked the most) is wonderful and needs no help. There were very few patches in Rhino that I found, that I didnt think I could use in a track- right now. Most were a nice surprise, sounded down right KILLER for a factory preset. The sounds are warm and useable, and there are many of them, support seems to be great, the price is twice to 3 times lower than some others I own and wernt as thrilled with at first like I am with Rhino. Seems very stable. All this figured out without reading one word in the manual (gave it a 7 just because)- which Im thinking once you learn this synth- WATCH OUT! Much more wonderful sounds are sure to become available with this baby... All in all- I got my moneys worth and then some. This is one nice Synth folks- no kidding...Read Review
